If you are into gadgets and consider yourself tech-savvy, the perfect job has just become available, courtesy of UK television broadcaster Channel 4. The corporation has just announced a new role that requires someone with a passion for technology and gadgets to join the presenting team for a new documentary series called Future Family. It’s a web-based programme that will follow the average family as their lives are transformed using new and futuristic technology and gadgets....

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) hasrecently commissionedthree private companies, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, to develop nuclear fission thermal rockets for use in lunar orbit. Such a development, if flown, could usher in a new era of spaceflight. That said, it is only one of several exciting avenues in rocket propulsion. Here are some others. Chemical rockets The standard means of propulsion for spacecraft uses chemical rockets....

While social media provides a real opportunity for brands to engage with their fans, keeping track of the current state of a social media campaign is still a relatively vague affair. Aiming to solve this problem, a new service calledFanGagerhas launched to identify and reward the most avid fans of brands online. By analysing activity across a brand’s social media presences, FanGager creates a database, identifying the most active fans, tracking their activity and producing reports about overall engagement....

If you’re the kind of person who obsessively follows news about your favourite bands or gets excited by a new photo of Britney Spears stumbling out of a nightclub at 3am,Fanitycould be for you. Essentially, this new site – launched by a Dutch team – is an alternative take on the RSS reader that allows you to follow music acts rather then news sources. So, If you’re interested in Kanye West, Jay-Z and Eminem (for example) you can mark yourself as a “fan” and then news, multimedia content and social media activity about your chosen celebrities is pushed into your Fanity stream....

If there was one thing that defined Steve Jobs, it was his immense creativity, and it seems that a lot of fans were as inspired by the man as his creative genius. Some of them found a wonderful way to express their respect for the departed Apple co-founder by creating a portrait of him out of thousands of Post-it Notes,as reported by MacRumors. The portrait now adorns the front-facing glass walls of an Apple Store in Munich, Germany and has been created out of 4,001 of those small sticky notes....